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a blue fish is swimming in an aquarium

The Seattle Aquarium has a 25,000 gallon, wrap-around tank creating the illusion you are snorkeling in a Pacific coral reef. Among the countless marine creatures you will see is this blue spotted unicorn fish. It seems he should be cast in a Disney animated film with a gravelly voice sounding like the large-nosed singer Jimmy […]

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a white fish swimming in the blue water

unicorn fish, also spelled unicornfish, any of certain exclusively marine fishes belonging to the genus Naso, in the family Acanthuridae (order Perciformes), occurring in the tropical Indo-Pacific region. The 17 species are herbivorous algae eaters. Unicorn fishes have a pair of sharp forward-pointing spines that protrude from the side of the tail shaft, and the fishes also have a long spike, a frontal horn, protruding from the forehead. The elongate Eumecichthys fiski, in the crestfish…

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a fish that is swimming in some water

This is Naso brevirostris, known as the spotted unicorn among other names. Its prominent nose is actually a horn that biologists suspect it uses as a means of courtship, although it does make the fish look uncannily human in profile. That's not the unicorn fish's biggest talent though: it can also change color to suit its mood (eg it turns dark grey when stressed).

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